Supreme Court of India

Bose Abraham Etc. v. State of Kerala and Anr.

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Reported as [2001] 1 S.C.R. 808
Bench S. Rajendra Babu and Y.K. Sabharwal JJ.
Decided 1 February 2001

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the excavators and road rollers are motor vehicles for the purpose of the Motor Vehicles Act and they are registered under that Act.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Kera/a Tax on Entry of Motor Vehicles into local Areas Act. Section 20) and 3-Constitutiona/ validity of Section 3 challenged in writ petitions­ Dismissed by the High Court-On appeal, Held: The incidence of taxation in the context of Entry 52 of list II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution is entry of goods into a local area for sale, use or consumption therein-In order to attract tax under the provision of Section 3 of the Act, a motor vehicle must have entered into a local area for use or sale therein being liable for registration under the Motor Vehicles Act-Mere fact of a Motor

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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